A5018921435- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Digestive system and related health
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Plant and animal studies
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- World Trade Organization Law
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
University of Bristol
2015-2024
Oxford Archaeology
2022
Scottish Enterprise
2022
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
2022
Cabot (United States)
2020-2021
American University
2001
The investigation of organic residues associated with archaeological pottery using modern analytical chemical methods began in the 1970s. It was recognised early on that analysis lipids (i.e. fats, waxes and resins) preserved surface or fabric single potsherds, representative vessels, a powerful method for ascertaining use, high degree specificity. Subsequent developments saw significant change scale, studies often involving lipid analyses tens to hundreds potsherds per assemblage, providing...
The timing and extent of the adoption exploitation domesticates their secondary products, across Holocene North Africa, has long been subject debate. three distinct areas within region, Mediterranean north Nile Valley Sahara, each with extremely diverse environments ecologies, demonstrate differing trajectories to pastoralism. Here, we address this question using a combination faunal evidence organic residue analyses c. 300 archaeological vessels from sites in Algeria, Libya Sudan. This...
Organic residue analyses of archaeological ceramics can provide important insights into ancient foodways. To date, however, there has been little critical reflection on how lipid residues might (or not) reflect dietary practices or subsistence strategies more generally. A combination ethnoarchaeological research and chemical isotopic from pottery made used by modern Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya was undertaken to supplement the interpretive framework investigations. total 63...
Significance Lipid residue analysis of archaeological ceramics provides the earliest direct chemical evidence for milk, meat, and plant consumption by pastoralist societies in eastern Africa. Data milk specialized pastoral systems (c. 5000 to 1200 BP) reveal changing selective pressures lactase persistence provide support models gene–culture coevolution among populations.
The application of biomolecular techniques to archaeological materials from the Balkans is providing valuable new information on prehistory region. This especially relevant for study neolithisation process in SE Europe, which gradually affected rest continent. Here, answer questions regarding diet and subsistence practices early farming societies central Balkans, we combine organic residue analyses pottery, taxonomic isotopic domestic animal remains human dental calculus. results lipid...
Abstract Honey and other bee products were likely a sought-after foodstuff for much of human history, with direct chemical evidence beeswax identified in prehistoric ceramic vessels from Europe, the Near East Mediterranean North Africa, 7 th millennium BC. Historical ethnographic literature across Africa suggests products, honey larvae, had considerable importance both as food source making honey-based drinks. Here, to investigate this, we carry out lipid residue analysis 458 pottery Nok...
Birch bark tar is a manufactured product with history of production and use that reaches back to the Palaeolithic. Its sticky, water resistant biocidal properties mean it has wide range applications, for example, as multipurpose adhesive, sealant in medicine. Archaeological evidence birch old world covers broad geographic from UK Baltic Mediterranean Scandinavia. In east north this there continuity modern times but western Europe British Isles generally been viewed limited prehistory,...
Archaeological excavations conducted in 2017 at Grantown Road, Forres form the final phase of works on a residential development that began 2002. The earlier examined an area more than 70ha and confirmed presence extensive Iron Age settlement represented by ring-ditch, ring-groove, post-ring structures, association with four-post souterrain, metalworking furnaces. (Canmore ID 320363), reported here, have expanded record prehistoric medieval revealed previously recorded cropmark site...
Archaeological excavations conducted in 2017 at Grantown Road, Forres form the final phase of works on a residential development that began 2002. The earlier examined an area more than 70ha and confirmed presence extensive Iron Age settlement represented by ring-ditch, ring-groove, post-ring structures, association with four-post souterrain, metalworking furnaces. (Canmore ID 320363), reported here, have expanded record prehistoric medieval revealed previously recorded cropmark site...
The subsistence practices of Holocene communities living in the Nile Valley Central Sudan are comparatively little known. Recent excavations at Khor Shambat, Sudan, have yielded well-defined Mesolithic and Neolithic stratigraphy. Here, for first time, archaeozoological, palaeobotanical, phytolith dental calculus studies combined with lipid residue analysis around 100 pottery fragments comparative faunal remains organic residues. This holistic approach provides valuable information on changes...